The Gender of Democracy: Citizenship and Gendered Subjectivity

ISBN-13: 9780415382960 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 208 str.

Maro Pantelidou-Malouta; M. P. Maloutas; Maro Pantelidou Maloutas

Opis

As developments in the European Union and elsewhere make the re-examination of citizenship a pressing issue, this book reflects on the persisting 'masculine' character of contemporary democracy and the measures taken in the EU to combat it. Combining a theoretical approach with a specific critique of EU gender policy, The Gender of Democracy argues that substantial democracy as a social project cannot co-exist with the current system of gender relations that are inherently dichotomous and thus demarcate social categories of superior and inferior status. Drawing on utopian thought, Maro Pantelidou Maloutas proposes a re-examination of the notion of the gendered subject and a revision of the dominant perceptions of the relations between sex, sexuality and gender. Containing a critique of specific EU gender policies, the book shows how it is not enough to seek to 'do away with' gender inequality simply by formulating policies that are pro-women, and argues that in order to realise democracy's emancipatory component, far-reaching policies that deconstruct rather than modernize gender relations are needed.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The correlation between democracy and gender  2. Restricted women’s presence in political decision-making: Theoretical issues and policies  3. The gendered subject as citizen  4. Gender, democracy, utopia.  Concluding remarks.

O autorze

Maro Pantelidou Maloutas is Professor of Political Sciences at the Department of Political Science at the University of Athens. She specialises in issues concerning democracy, citizenship and the cultural aspects of politics.